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Swans in Dublin's Grand Canal at Portobello. The area is undergoing a redevelopment with the building of a hotel on the site of the buildings behind the tree here.
Swans are not always on this stretch of water, but are more often than not.
#ireland#vsco#swan#landscape#vscocam#irish#photographers on tumblr#photography#travel#nature#dublin#portobello#city life#panoramic ireland#portobello dublin#urban scenery#trees of distinction
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If you’ve already answered this then no worries, but what would the typical clan cat lifespan be then (assuming they don’t die prematurely from injury/illness). Just curious as to how many generations have passed since the clan’s founding in the 80 or so years.
Clan cat lifespans can be pretty variable! They're considered senior warriors at 5, but if all works out their lifespan is often 16 years. Kittens usually enter the picture for a parent who is 2 to 8 years old, but they COULD have them anywhere between 1 to 15.
Clan cats play less attention to raw age than to EXPERIENCE, though. It is socially discouraged for a fresh warrior to become a parent, and you are NOT an adult until you're out of apprenticeship. They see age like this;
Child: Less than 6 full moons SEEN. If a kitten's eyes were not opened when the first moon of their life passed over them, that is not a month they were alive.
Adolescent: The amount of time you are an apprentice. Flamepaw was considered a child while his sister was an adult.
Young Adult: The first full year out of apprenticeship, when you've handled a full year on your own. A warrior is only eligible for an apprentice after this length of time, so by extension a cat COULD be a mentor around age 2 (BUT that's considered young. 3 is a better bet.)
Adulthood is even more variable, because you're usually not considered "aged" until you've had an apprentice or a litter and you're around 5 years old. Without either of those things, you often won't be considered a "senior warrior" until you're as old as 8.
So to answer your question directly, you can comfortably estimate a new crop of warriors about every 5 years, and full population turnover every 15. Between the numbers, 8 is a good estimation of how long it takes for a generation to pass
(Though I'm more partial to historic events and time periods than crunching numbers like that)
Elders can hang on for a LOOONG time though-- One-eye over in ThunderClan was a personal friend of Pinestar and witnessed the Crusades before passing away at the tender age of 20-something.
#clan culture#better bones au#Age#It's good to remember that population isn't like salmon who die when they have kids#Gen X Millenials Z and Alpha are all coexisting right now#And imo the distinctions between the generations have much more to do with what we grew up with#I'm a lot more fond of the benchmark ''do you remember a time before 9/11'' to separate Millenials and Z for example#Rather than the imo silly division of the year 2k#One of those is much more meaningful to how you developed as a person than the other imo#A SECOND TREE HAS HIT THE RIPPLESTAR
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I love how Lippy did his boards.
Yeah, I tend to find Lippy’s boards are some of the most expressive outta the bunch! I actually got another one of Lippy’s boards lined up for tomorrow’s post, whadda coincidence :]
(From TV episode 4A Easy for you to Sleigh)
#htf#happy tree friends#htf lifty#Submitted boards#yaaay I remembered this time :]#anyways Lippy is one of the few boarders who I can actually remember off the top of my head#no shade to the other board artists. I’m just really bad at names and they aren’t the most accessible unless I watch through the credits#or they happen to mention who boarded an episode during the commentary track#I think I mostly remember Lippy cus he’s got a real distinct nickname and he’s also responsible for two very iconic board moments to me#also uh. Kinda helps he signed his Hole Lotta Love boards lol
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Do psychotropic drugs and/or ritual play a role in any of the blightseed cultures? A pretty broad question, lol
Yeah that’s a very broad question, the answer is about as much as it tends to play roles in real history. Alcohol is pretty ubiquitous (outside of cultures that abstain from intoxicants) and used for a variety of purposes, opioids are commonly used in some parts for pain relief or recreational purposes, stimulants (usually in mild, natural forms) are used to provide extra energy, and hallucinogens are most commonly used as part of a larger religious framework (rather than for recreational purposes). Any more elaborate answer kinda has to be case by case in a certain culture or part of the setting.
I'll just take this as an opportunity to talk about the one established sect that pretty much REVOLVES around psychoactive use. This is the Scholarly Order of the Root, which is a sort of mystery religion + elite community of scholars who currently occupy the Ur-Tree and its forest in the far southern Lowlands (southeast of Imperial Wardin, on the same land mass).
The Ur-Tree is the obligatory Huge Fucking Fantasy Tree (and its surrounding forest). It’s a mass of vegetation about a mile tall and almost as old as Plant Life Itself, its upper branches are primeval plants, which become more modern the nearer they get to the ground (and each 'level' holds tiny ecosystems, some containing descendants of LONG-extinct arthropods/other small animals). Its lowest branches and the surrounding forest are contemporary plant life, and all is connected and protected by an incomparably MASSIVE fungal mycelium network (which is itself a living god).
A lot of the Scholars' more secretive practices revolve around experimentation with substance use with the goal of expanding the Mind and transcending the body to fully connect to the Dreamlands, and they have a supply chain of traders and mercenaries called Rootrunners who traffic substances into the Lowlands. Most of their psychoactive use is in a very intentional capacity and not just like, for fun, but a LOT of them are just straight up addicted to cocaine (in the form of alchemically refined bruljenum, which is used for practical purposes of its stimulant effect during long hours of work).
All known psychoactives are desirable for experimentation (particularly hallucinogens), with each having properties that either allow expansion of the Mind, transcendence of the body, or outright divine communion. Their effects are logged in great detail and interpreted to form the basis of the Scholars' understanding of the natural world and reality itself.
The most important substance is Ur-Root, which is root matter from subterranean levels of the Ur-Tree that have both their own intrinsic psychoactive substances and a very, very high concentration of living god mycelium. The tree root contains DMT and the mycelium has its own wholly unique effects (being an actual living god). They alchemically refine it into a purer, more potent form, and use it to expand beyond the body and directly commune with the Giants, a group of entities they have identified as the only true gods.
An Ur-Root trip starts off with minor visual distortion, which turns into shifting fractals that slowly obscure the vision. Eventually the senses are entirely taken over by a 'tunnel' of rapidly shifting fractals and geometries. In a complete trip, the experiencer gets a sense that they have been pushed through a membrane and entered another realm, finding themselves in a distinct experiential Space.
At this point they may encounter entities which communicate to them in a language impossible to describe but wholly understood. These beings are understood to be the Giants, or at least aspects of the Giants that mortals are capable of comprehending (they often take familiar tutelary forms of the Mantis or the Snake, or appear resembling the same type of sophont that the experiencer is, all composed of ever-shifting geometries). The experiencer often feels a sense of unconditional and endless love from these beings, though the Giants may be more hostile and may appear in the form of the Trickster (usually a cultural figure regarded as malicious, be it an animal or otherwise) in a bad trip.
(^Up until this point, this has mostly just been a DMT 'breakthrough' experience ft. 'machine elves' and the like).
They are then removed from this space and returned to something that feels like the real world, but is nearly unrecognizable. They have a sense of rapidly moving through time, and will usually see 'the spires' towards the beginning, which just so happen to look like this:

(source + some context via Implication- the spires are exactly what this art is depicting)
The experiencer continues to move across an unfathomable amount of time, occasionally 'seeing' other such flashes of unfamiliar landscapes and creatures, and yet also being devoid of all their senses, the 'seeing' is pure, unfiltered experience. There is a sense of interconnectedness with all life, and that one has become the forest (or even Life) itself. The sense of time is wildly distorted, the trip lasts only about 5 minutes but feels like an eternity and is understood as literal hundreds of millions of years.
The experiencer has usually lost any remaining sense of Self and individual consciousness during this phase (in which case this time distortion is usually a neutral or even peaceful experience), but some retain a fraction of their identity, and find themselves trapped and conscious while experiencing what feels like eternity (which can be LIFE-CHANGINGLY distressing, even after the fact).
(^This latter part of the trip is the effects of the Ur-Tree fungus).
The trip ends with a sense of rushing through the ground and back up into one's body, at which point they will abruptly return to their senses and consciousness. The details are then immediately retrieved via interview and recorded in immense detail. The whole experience is understood as having been full comprehension of the Dreamlands, communion with the Giants, and then a tour through the act of creation.
This is done as part of the initiatory practice into the inner mystery-religion of the scholars, and as needed for study by high scholar-priests. It is not taken lightly, both as it is absolute communion with the gods and reality, and in that it can be a very, very difficult experience. People who have gone through this often walk away with a permanently shifted perspective, often in a positive and/or comforting way- a sense of interconnectedness with all life, a peace with the concept of death, seeing less of a point in individual ego and the concept of Self, and comfort in the sense of divine love they (may have) experienced. This heavily influences the philosophy of the Scholars and has had effects by proxy in the religious worldviews of the region.
Details of this experience are closely guarded, and initiates are given absolutely no prior knowledge and expectations for their trip. This is seen as a necessity- their naivety will allow for a true, unfiltered experience, and can be used to gauge whether they should or should not be accepted. Those that have a distinctly bad trip upon initiation may be assumed to have been 'rejected' by the giants and thus denied full priesthood, though this largely depends on How they interpret their distressing trip- those who identify this as a test and harsh lesson in a journey to enlightenment may be accepted (as this is how fully initiated scholar-priests interpret and handle their bad trips).
This inner priesthood is only a small fraction of the Scholarly Order, and its greater function is as a hub of education and repository of knowledge, and Scholar-trained doctors can provide some of the best medical care available in the setting ('best medical care in this setting' only means so much but it's pretty solid, relatively speaking). Only a chosen few Scholars ever get to commune with the Ur-Root, and most of the divine secrets revealed in the process are kept hidden (though they indirectly influence the politics and worldview of the entire order).
#I'm kind of fascinated by the quasi-religious beliefs that have developed around recreational hallucinogen use (ESPECIALLY DMT)#In contrast to like. Uses of DMT-containing substances like ayahuasca for long-established religious purposes#So this concept is basically 'what if a religion was FORMED from pretty much the ground up out of DMT usage'#Like the common 'entities' people encounter in recreational use being identified as the Real Gods and producing a religious worldview#that is mostly rooted in this experience (while still influenced by other cultural factors)#Also the like. Meta going on here is that the fungus is a 'living god' and the oldest one on the planet#It is a VERY rare type of living god that is 'created' by non-sophont (non-sentient even) beings and exists as a mycelial network#that perfectly supports and protects an entire forest. Basically a god for plants. It is so deeply interconnected with its forest that the#usual power sophont belief would have over it has basically zero influence. This is absolutely the closest thing to A God in canon.#(While still not being a Creator/sapient/or even supernatural within the framework of this reality. Just VERY unique.)#The Ur-Tree has always been above water and grows very very slowly over the course of millenia by kind of 'pulling up' plant life from#the ground (so you see ancient long extinct plants in its higher branches and contemporary plants close to/on the ground)#The mycelium helps shield and feed extinct plant life that could not otherwise survive in the contemporary environment#And the forest is big enough to produce its own weather (it is a rainforest and has been ever since the capacity for rainforests Existed)#It's not really a tree at all in any normal sense but an amalgam of thousands of types of plants-#Some growing on top of others and some interwoven beyond any distinction. It does form a superficially treelike structure#(mostly in order to physically support its own mass) with a very wide 'trunk' and massive 'roots' (which end in actual roots).#It feeds on its own perpetually shedding and decaying 'body' and any animal life that dies in the forest is VERY rapidly#decayed and absorbed by the mycelial network (to the point that many large scavengers cannot survive in this forest)#(If you kill a cow and leave it on the ground for just 1/2 hour you'll see little strands of mycelium already growing up around it)#The fungus fruits and spores on a very infrequent basis (scale of ten-thousands of years) which causes the forest to very slowly spread#Fortunately this isn't really an existential threat because the spread is VERY slow (even on a geological scale) and the fungus#itself is rather mundane in nature and cannot usually compete against established fungal networks in other places.#Though there are little Ur-Tree mycelium groves and woodlands in other parts of the world that may (over untold millennia)#generate their own Ur-Trees (there's already a few but they are all MUCH smaller and not readily recognized as the same thing)#WRT THE TRIP:#Most of what I'm describing is a DMT trip but consumption of high doses of Ur-Tree mycelium has both mundane psychoactive effects#and IS kind of the person experiencing the fungus' entire lifetime and seeing flashes of the world's actual evolutionary history.#The amount of material knowledge that can be accurately gleaned from this this is VERY limited though.
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been seeing these little design challenges on twitter re: warrior cats so i decided to try my hand at it with the tigerclones !!! :3
#warrior cats#my art#warriors#tigerstar#(both of them LMAOOOO)#tigerclaw#tigerheart#brambleclaw#bramblestar#lightleap#hawkfrost#also i KNOWWWW tigerheart was later changed to be a dark brown tabby but WUAGHHHH#he was originally a golden tabby so i kinda merged the two ideas together#i just think its cute to have him match his grandma a little more 🥺#since she was golden and everything#even if its just a teensy bit!#also he's said to look like brambleclaw also so i tried to like mirror their markings a little bit while still like#keeping them distinct enough#lightleap gets freckles like dovewing and also the same pretty eyelashes :3#shes also more desaturated bc dove is grey + the dark coat is just like in her family tree LOL#me: aw itll b fun to have ppl guess :) also me: distinctly says why i did things on what characters#warrior cats designs#wc designs#warriors fanart#warrior cats fanart
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i think its funny that antis can't comprehend the fact that my therapist is okay with me shipping problematic things and that she also dislikes antis.
#🧁🍕#proship#pro ship#proshippers please interact#pro shippers please interact#anti anti#profiction#pro fiction#profic#pro fic#she literally loves the proship tree and i'm being serious#she was like shocked with that one photo of the meet up and she was confused on why ppl called it the “pred tree” LMAO#then they claim i'm lying bc they just can't handle the idea of a professional saying that fiction is good actually#and that thought crimes don't exist. and that as long as you know something is harmful irl and you know the distinction between#fiction and reality. you are literally harming no one and that means that its okay like. ughh
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the same roofers are here today and boyfriend just whispered to me "should we walk out there and go" (jovially) "'SOMEbody's got a case of the GIGGLES'"
#it's a VERY DISTINCTIVE LAUGH#at least it sounds like they're having fun#in between giant concerning crashes and yells in spanish that sounds like they're trying to navigate a smoking x-wing into the launch bay#psir#mac and the tree situation
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Also because i cannot properly define "heaven" and earth".
#part of this is also due to growing up with low church protestantism i'm aware#all i've really got is “unseen” vs “seen”#and “spiritual” vs “sublunary” (as distinct from “physical/material”)#“holy” and “common”???#but the sacramental (that which is both seen and unseen like the eucharist or baptism or the tree of life) is purely holy#or i guess not#water is common#and holy water is holy and common#idk#something to meditate on
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The humble manzanita with its gorgeous red twisted bark
#technically a shrub not a tree this is just a really tall one#I mean like in all technicality tho also like. a small tree#the distinction is a lil blurry#so I mean technically a tree. but they’re more shrub like I guess#manzanita#native plants#plant#take a walk with me
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Trees in my art compilation
(Not all of these are posted online so lmk if u want to see the full thing lmao)
#illustration#drawing#digital#art#artists on tumblr#digital art#illustrative art#illustrators on tumblr#nature illustration#trees#tree illustration#I like drawing trees a lot if u can’t tell#I don’t think I have a distinct style until I put em together like this
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Hey I have no clue how these ask things work, so I figured I just shoot my shot and see what happens.
So I've been rereading a bunch of old Destiny lore recently and I can't help but be a little saddened by all the amazing story elements that were added and then completely abandoned in game.
Dregen yor and the weapons of Sorrow (Honestly just rogue light bearers in general)
The Concordant Faction (Please Bunige I want a proper enemy human faction)
All the other cool alien races like Qugu, Sindu, and Clipse (Fighting the same four enemy types over and over again starts to get a bit repetitive)
Awesome locations like Old Chicago and Mumbai Push (I want to see more of what humanities golden age looked like)
ELIKSNI Guardians!!!!! (We’ve only wanted them in game for forever now)
And there’s still plenty more but these are just the ones off the top of my head. And after reviewing all these elements it makes what we currently have in game now feel a little underwhelming.
So if you had to choose something from destiny’s old lore to bring to the for front of the game now what would you pick?
And how do you feel about all these abandoned lore elements?
Well the first thing you gotta remember about 'forgotten' lore is Bungie LOVES to play the long game. We went YEARS without any answers about Nezarec, for example. And Lords Timur and Colovance went a decade without any mention at all only to make a lore cameo in Season of the Wish only a few months ago. I admit I wonder if they will keep this up with all the turnover that the company has had with writers etc. but it has been their strong modus operandi through the entirety of the franchise to circle back on seemingly long forgotten lore and characters. In fact this has been a running model of this expansion's Episode models, tbh. Hailing back to figures like Failsafe, Maya Sundaresh and Fikrul, not to mention freaking Skolas??!? Faces of the distant past, all of them. So when people say they are saddened by things being forgotten I take another lick of salt because I don't really believe in that. Furthermore, you've sent a rather peculiar checklist to make that point.
Osteo Striga is a literal brother to Thorn via synthesis of the Necrotic Grip exotic. Not to mention I would like to think Necrochasm probably counts as a Weapon of Sorrow as well and we got an update for it in Season of the Witch just last year.
The Concordat and Lysander have made a surprise return in the Allstar Vector lore in Season of the Wish
and the Qugu have an entire incredibly meaty lorebook Dynasty that was released with The Final Shape.
We've even seen a reference back to Old Chicago and the weirdness with it in the new Ice Breaker lore. *I don't think I've heard a thing from anyone about Lightbearer Eliksni before so I'd love to see what you've got on that.
What has definitely fallen by the wayside, yes, is the concept of Rogue Lightbearers, but as our understanding of Light and the use of Darkness has expanded, the notion of 'rogue' has kind of fallen away. "Dredgen" is certainly a thing of the past, and guys like Shin Malphur have gotten to fuck off into the sunset and retire. Am I satisfied with how that story ended? Not really. Would I be shocked if he bounced back into the story someday? Not at all. Because that's how Bungie plays stuff. And there are also still characters like the Warlock Jana-14 who studied the Necrotic Grips and later absconded with Osteo Striga who is still at large and unaccounted for, presumably running amok feeding her child so yanno. (fite me I love the lore on those lololol) Things aren't all sunshine and daisies. I will say, absolutely, the newer writing has lost some of its teeth. You look at some of the older stuff and how incredibly dark it truly is, and it's breathtaking. The Man With No Name is heartbreaking. The Last Days on Kraken Mare is chilling. I think that they're softening the story a little to appeal to a wider audience maybe. But not by a whole lot. I recall some extremely poorly camouflaged rape analogies with some of Osiris' descriptions of his imprisonment with Savathun and the way he was suppressed and overtaken. Saint's reaction, when he gets ahold of her and exacts revenge is incredibly dark. It's all very carefully metered. But this is all background lore. It is largely hidden in weapons and armor and equipment tabs. The Qugu got a wholeass book which is spectacular (and while there are only three 'chapters' they are HUGE much denser than usual pages in Destiny lore books). But you gotta read it. You gotta FIND it.
I don't think they've forgotten anything, but what I would change is how they present this stuff. Destiny tells some SPECTACULAR stories....but then it goes and hides it. The main stream episodic stories are shallow compared to the oceans of lore hidden in text, and usually much milder for more palatable consumption, but the best parts players and lore enjoyers have to know where to look to find, to the point where there's external third-party resources that have been built up like Ishtar Collective (bless them) and Destiny Lore Vault. That's not great.
And I can't help but look at like what Warhammer 40K does: all those INCREDIBLY GOOD books, and now there's games, and shorts, and so many incredible facets to tell their story, and they're all spectacular.
Bungie give us real books. Take these lorebooks and running threads you've sprinkled out through years and years... GOD give me O Hated Nezarec- his lore and his creepy ass acolytes and the horrible things that happen to his victims as a horror novel. Or the Drifter's story. Or ya'll know the one I'm crying for is the Iron Lords and the Dark Age. Give the frothing fannies a five part series following Crow around. They wanna make some money, get a good writer or six and crank those puppies out call them canon and cut them loose people will eat that shit up. Heaven forbid they do an animated series like Arcane or Castlevania. Can you imagine?? The world would end people would get so excited if it was actually GOOD. But they don't need to change the story. They just need to make it easier to get to. (and yeah, that includes how they're presenting the gameplay right now but that's a whole nother kettle of worms I don't want to touch)
#ask#destiny lore#I'm not a lore expert#You're kind of barking up the wrong tree with me here#but this is stuff I remember#and was able to find quick references for#I have a few distinct hyperfixations in Destiny that I am very knowledgable about and these are none of them#Like. Is this a test?
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Leafy autumn with leaf drop along the Grand Canal in Dublin.
It's one of my favourite parts of Dublin, in all a very photogenic city.
#ireland#vsco#swan#landscape#vscocam#irish#photographers on tumblr#photography#travel#nature#dublin#portobello#city life#panoramic ireland#portobello dublin#urban scenery#trees of distinction#urban landscape#banks of the canal#grand canal
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Gonna reinstall warband. Vanilla bannerlord is a far better game than vanilla warband, but that sengoku mod for warband is so good and the bannerlord version doesn't have a release date yet
#i particularly loved how theres a few independent forts you can take over that give you access to a unique troop tree#those troops usually sucked but i liked that you could have your own force that was distinct from all the others#i remember using the sado ones a lot. one upgrade and they became fully armoured samurai with a huge range of possible weapons
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Storyboard samples from Seasons 5-8 of The Croods: Family Tree! I got to board so many fun sequences on this show... it was really difficult to squeeze a reel into just 2 minutes ToT
#storyboards#storyboard artist#dreamworks#the croods family tree#the croods#the croods a new age#animation#animatic#also all of the croods characters were so much fun to draw#they all had really distinctive shapes that were easy to shorthand quickly#and if you could not tell.... I really loved boarding Gran asdfafsdsfad#she was just so out there#also please watch our show on hulu it's pretty funny and silly#and eric hawkins our lead lighter made the show look 1000 times better than it had any right to look LOL#also-- eric hawkins would go onto be our lead lighter on jurassic world chaos theory!#he is also why the lighting looks so good on that show haha#my art
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which of these are better? :>
#just me hi#poll#they're both good on specific foods :> 👍#but my mom and dad are always arguing about which is best so this should be fun lol#//i'm never going to forget that time i fully squeezed an orange onto my leftover rice by mistake :(((#there is 1 one wrong answer on this poll Hfbvhsf#my grandma was stealing fruit from trees i think and nobody could tell the difference betwixt the oranges and lemons she nabbed#that thing looked like a fully-ripe lemon and then it turned out to be a fully-ripe ORANGE i have never tasted such bitter#and backstabbing truth in my LIFE#how can truth be both obscured beyond recognition and yet so sharply distinct auhhghgughgu#worst day of my life#not true but my other options for a meal were my dear dear grandmama's spaghetti#[leans in close] She Put Ketchup In It And Said It Was The Same Thing As The Sauce .‿.#reread that sentence and please just consider it for a moment. a minute even. maybe i'm being dramatic but do you see what i'm saying here#//anyway food horrors aside citrus is cool 10/10 fruit truly#can't go wrong with citrus :3#//now let's see if i go n do something or end up reblogging stuff for like an hour Lmao o7 o/
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anyways o7 im going to pretend to be a person (partially bc i forgot legends of avantris is ALSO on Spotify my friend) 2 clean
when i return in 5mins it's bc. i have failed,
#jackals barks#or i got blown away by the wind#i can Hear It so thats a distinct possibility#ill be livebloggging from the tree i landed in
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